Month: January 2025

"Won't you help to sing these songs of freedom? Cause all I ever have Redemption songs, songs of freedom..." Bob Marley, Redemption Song. In a final bid to reclaim his 50-year legacy and respond to the pleas of 22 congressional representatives, President Joe Biden issued a posthumous pardon to Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr., Jamaica's first national hero. Issued on the eve of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, the federal […]

JobsFirstNYC has emerged as a beacon of hope for young people seeking meaningful employment in a city of abundant opportunities and complex challenges. Under the leadership of CEO and President Marjorie Parker, the organization has transformed the lives of more than 20,000 individuals, offering innovative solutions to tackle youth unemployment. Parker, who immigrated from Jamaica in the 1980s, assumed leadership of JobsFirstNYC in 2017 after serving as deputy executive director. […]

President Joe Biden announced an '11th hour' posthumous pardon of Jamaican and Pan-Africanist Marcus Mosiah Garvey after decades of efforts by Caribbean and American activists to clear the name. The announcement was hailed as a highly progressive move in Jamaica as hopes had been high that Democratic President Biden would have acquiesced and would have granted the pardon, easing decades of anger in large parts of the African American and […]

Pre-eminent Caribbean soca-calypso arranger Frankie McIntosh on Monday paid tribute to Vincentian calypsonian Fitzroy "Temple" Edwards  of “Hold the Cock and Pullet” fame, who succumbed to cancer on Nov. 24. He was 73. “Temple was part of a New York-based group of Vincentian calypsonians, which emerged in the mid-1980s,” the Brooklyn-based, Vincentian-born McIntosh told Caribbean Life exclusively, disclosing that Walter Porter, Darwin David, Annice Caruth, and Dan Simon – all […]